"I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation."

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Whoopi Goldberg

#Women Quotes #Irritation Quotes #People Quotes

“Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?”
“It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.”
“Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please donâ€™t punish me for saying it. I think you know youâ€™re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I donâ€™t want to run errands for someone cruel.”
“Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.”
“The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.”
“You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.”
“I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.”
“As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.”

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